Category: Science

The U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds create a heart-shaped smoke trail during a flight maneuver near NASA’s Vehicle Assembly Building during the agency’s MAX POWER expo

Nothing really exists in isolation. Almost every part of our lives exists in a network. Consciousness arises from what neurons do together, life from what

Creative, interdisciplinary, and bold, the study of the origins of life has entered a new age. Welcome to Quanta Magazine’s special series on the origins

Lucid dreaming describes when you realize you’re in a dream as it’s unfolding. Sometimes, people can control the content of their dreams from this state

Scientists have cooled atoms to the coldest temperature ever recorded, using a laser trap aboard China’s Tiangong space station . Tiangong included an experiment in

Archaeologists have found what may be the world’s oldest poisoned weapons at a 125,000-year-old site on an ancient lakeshore in Saudi Arabia. The stone tools

What determines which moments are remembered? The amygdala, typically associated with regulating fear and aggression, may play a major role

Europe’s Hera spacecraft is just beginning its exploration of the binary asteroid Didymos in a mission that’s tantalizing scientists on two fronts.

A newborn baby’s heart is roughly the size of a walnut — which makes open-heart surgery challenging. Each year, about 10,000 babies in the United

A telescope tasked with creating the largest-ever 3D map of the universe is making good on its promise. On Thursday (Nov. 12), the European Space

Maritime archaeologists investigating a 17th-century shipwreck off the coast of Sweden have discovered a fancy shoe and two metal rings used as currency in the

Natufian hunter-gatherers may have shown their kids how to sculpt clay, sets of preserved fingerprints suggest.

The gold bear would have been worn on a headdress. (Image credit: Almaty City Administration) Archaeologists in Kazakhstan have discovered a unique gold bear figurine

More than a billion years of geological history is missing from the walls of the Grand Canyon, and now, scientists may know why. In the